ManRammer

There are a few problems in the mod community, that completely cripple it:

a) Everyone wants to be the designer, and create their own vision. Very few people want to create someone elses vision, which leads to a whole lot of 'ideas people', who offer nothing but a poorly thought out, general concept.

b) Very few people have any skill to offer, and mostly skills are difficult to learn. Coders, animators, and sound techs are insanely difficult to come by, and usually have their own project to work on.

c) The amount of content required to make a quality total conversion is overwhelming for most games. FPS'es, for example, require a metric ton of high quality models, textures, animations, and sounds, as well as skilled coders to bring it all together.

d) Support from developers is minimal, and usually a token effort, and consequently, mod support becomes even less (snowball).

e) Only the most popular mods get any playerbase at all; why bother making something if noone will play it? Iron Grip: The Oppression, for example. I downloaded it, but because theres no player base, I can't play it.


All these things contribute. More support is nice, but the fact is, like any free development project, getting people to contribute is difficult when there are so many adverse factors.

I don't see why people are complaining about being given more choice. Don't like FPS on consoles? Great! Dont buy it! Want to enjoy it on PC? Don't buy it!

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